MSP8210
Multi-Service Processor
Preliminary Product Brief
Product Overview
PMC-Sierra’s MSP8210 Multi-Service Processor is designed to meet
the needs of networking, network attached storage appliances
and embedded applications.
The MSP8210 is part of the MSP8200 Series of highly-integrated,
feature-rich products that incorporate the high performance,
power-efficient, MIPS 34K core. The processor provides a PCI
interface, three Ethernet ports, two USB ports, ROM, Flash, DDR,
and low-speed peripheral interfaces, all connected internally to
the MIPS 34K by a high-bandwidth multi-service bus.
Product Highlights
MIPS 34K Microprocessor Core
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Multi-thread-enabled 600 MHz CPU core
9-stage pipeline
64 Kbyte Instruction and Data caches
32 Kbyte Data Scratchpad RAM
Supports MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set
MIPS16e Code Compression
32-bit address paths, 64-bit data paths to caches and external
interface
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DSP intruction set extensions
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EJTAG debug and off-chip trace support
Benefits
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High-performance 600 MHz MIPS34 core enables demanding
packet processing and network applications
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Highly-integrated system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution simplifies
board design, reducing component and overall system cost
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Optimized memory controller provides low-latency, high-
bandwidth access to SDRAM (DDR2-466)
Programmable Memory Management Unit
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8-entry Instruction TLB (ITLB) and Data TLB (DTLB)
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32 dual-entry Joint TLB (JTLB)
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JTLBs are sharable under software control
USB 2.0 Controller and PHY
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Both host and device mode of operation
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Supports low-speed (LS) operation (1.5 Mbit/s), full-speed (FS)
operation (12 Mbit/s) and hi-speed (HS) operation (480 Mbit/s)
Block Diagram
System Logic and Peripherals
REG
BCP
ELB
UART0
UART1
PCI
SPI
TWI
GPIO
Timer
SLP Control Interface
PCI Control
DXU
FIFO
FIFO
DDR SDRAM
Controller
Memory Control
Interface
DXU
4-way
Data Router
DXU
CPU Interface
CIC
MIPS 34K
Core
EJTAG
IRQ
DXU
Bridge
DMA
MAC
RMII/
GMII/MII
RMII/
GMII/MII
RMII/
GMII/MII
Multi-service Bus
USB
MAB
DXU
DXU
Bridge
DMA
MAC
USB
MAB
DXU
DXU
Bridge
DMA
MAC
JTAG
DFT
Bus Arbiter
Clock
Manager
XTAL
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MSP8210 Multi-Service Processor
System Interrupt Controller
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Handles interrupts for on-chip peripherals and 8 external
interrupts
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Supports up to 32 PCI message signaled interrupts (MSI)
Applications
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Networking applications
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Storage applications
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Embedded applications
High-performance Multi-service Bus (MS Bus)
Architecture
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32 bits at 233 MHz (7.4 Gbit/s)
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DMA engines integrated for the Ethernet MACs, USB, TDM
interface, security engine, and block copy engine
MSP8210 Network Storage Application
HD
HDD
D1
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Controller
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System Logic and Peripherals Module
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3.3 V PCI Local Bus 2.3-compliant host interface
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Configurable external Local Bus interface that supports data
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transfers up to 25 Mbytes per second
Glueless interface to x8 Flash memories
Clock manager and boot controller
Serial Peripheral Interface / Microprocessor Peripheral Interface
(SPI/MPI)
Two-Wire serial interface
28 GPIO pins
System interface controller (internal and external interrupts)
Two external times / clock generator
Two universal asynchronous serial (UART) interfaces
GMII
Network
MSP8210
PCI
HD
HDD
D1
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Further Resources
PMC-Sierra Microprocessors
www.pmc-sierra.com/mips-processors/
Clock Manager and Boot Controller
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In single crystal mode, all on-chip clocks are generated from a
single 12 MHz or 36 MHz crystal
Technical Documentation
www.pmc-sierra.com/products/DocFind.html
Ethernet Interface
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Three independent 10/100/1000 Ethernet MAC controllers
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User-selectable MII, RMII, or GMII on each MAC
Corporate Head Office:
PMC-Sierra, Inc.
Mission Towers One
3975 Freedom Circle
Santa Clara, CA, 95054, U.S.A.
Tel: 1.408.239.8000
Fax: 1.408. 492.1157
Operations Head Office:
PMC-Sierra, Inc.
100-2700 Production Way
Burnaby, BC V5A 4X1 Canada
Tel: 1.604.415.6000
Fax: 1.604.415.6200
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